More rivery reverie from July:

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         And when you forgive us our passion trees
 as we forgive   passing trees
 planted   o.k.   steering
 centered in the streaming   Sophie

  
         we will continue downriver
 into the heart of the aleph   into
 the elephant ear   the twin E
 of summer Delphi   a raven-ravined

  
         mouth of dark lady's delta
 the Southern Cross and
 acorn of Africa   scored
 for thumb piano   in delicate

  
         palm of leaves   of papyrus
 we will float south upstream
 toward Shebaa's sudden and mist-
 wisteria'd swampland   super-

  
         saturated with seedlings   and
 Balthasar's handsome shadowy
 handover to an infant she washed
 and watched as she washed   listen

  
         for the cue   of the alph-baton
 in her vale of   Captain Verde
 an apple orchard   unrevealed
 where   the fiduciary tablet of

  
         the future lies   in jewels   of jade
 and we will journey there   again
 ineffable, still   unbaffled nugget
 resting in the ruffled rustle of   J-

  
         shade   beyond coppery way-rust
 gone mossy   Mississippi delta'd
 into the Gulf   and  in Antarctica
 everything turns left (leaf-stirred)

       
                                          2.17.2000